The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.

When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.

The man who has never made a mistake will never make anything else.

Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.

Some persons, by hating vice too much, come to love men too little. Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred is the cowards revenge for being intimidated.

There is in man a specific lust for cruelty which infects even his passion of pity and makes it savage.

Worst of all, there is no sign of any relaxation of antisemitism. Logically it has nothing to do with Fascism. But the human raceis imitative rather than logical; and as Fascism spreads antisemitism spreads.